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This link was very helpful to me, if you really want to do it from scratch.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch

Couldn't you just uninstall Gwibber?

I've personally had very good luck with Twinkle. I've had a few problems with Ekiga playing nicely with Pulse, although I haven't used it since early Karmic days.

For Audio:

Ardour - the digital audio workstation (very powerful) - http://ardour.org
Jokosher - simple multitrack studio - http://www.jokosher.org/

For Video:

OpenShot - non-linear video...

I started from scratch again and rather than installing no packages and then adding them, I installed ubuntu-desktop and then removed the packages I didn't want (openoffice, evolution, etc.).

This...

Greetings,

I'm following the guide at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch to create my own LiveCD from scratch.

I would like the LiveCD to be bootable (duh),...

Thanks, worked for me, too.

You could check out "Devil's Pie," which I believe will do this for you.

See http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie/ or http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75749t for more information....

Using Free Pascal and Lazarus you can create GUI applications that run on a variety of platforms (Windows, Linux, OS X, etc.). Free Pascal's "TProcess" object makes it trivial to execute command-line...

$ egrep -o -e "My[^[:space:]]*\(" hey.txt
MyLittlePony(
MyBigHorse(

If you don't want the ( you could strip it off with sed:

$ egrep -o -e "My[^[:space:]]*\(" hey.txt | sed "s/(//"...

Check this link out. OpenSSH has a built in SOCKS5 proxy, so you can simply:


ssh -D 9999 username@ip-address-of-ssh-server

And then have your browser use localhost:9999 (or whatever port you...

I forgot to mention:

$ cat /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq
64

Since I installed Hardy on my new Dell Precision M6300 laptop, my /var/log/messages is full of this sort of thing:


Sep 22 14:17:28 tlacuache-laptop kernel: [203086.738750] rtc: lost 9 interrupts...

Festival is great, although the default voice leaves something to be desired, in my opinion. I followed this tutorial to find a better-sounding voice (nitech_us_slt_arctic_hts was my favorite).

As...

This tutorial was helpful for me when I set up subversion:

http://alephzarro.com/blog/2007/01/07/installation-of-subversion-on-ubuntu-with-apache-ssl-and-basicauth/

Replying to my own post...

After fiddling around with it some more last night, I determined that if I unplugged ALL other USB devices from my computer, the webcam would work fine.

On a whim, I...

I'm trying to get a logitech webcam working, model V-UK11, in 8.04.

Here's my system info:


Linux tlacuache-desktop 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 23:41:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
...

No, there is no way to do this. Sorry.

Photoshop CS2 works well in Wine. Very well.

I haven't tried CS3.

-SG

VMWare Server can be run without a GUI, but you'd have to run the GUI client (vmware-server-console) on another machine to manage it, create VMs, etc.

For example, I ahve VMWare Server running...

IIRC, I went through the gtkrc file and replaced variables for colors (@fg_color, etc.) with their actual values instead.

But, like I said, I still had the assertion error. I've tried the things...

Thanks, but I already did something to this effect as you can see in my original post. That got me past the first set of errors, but I've still got the others.

In the meantime I'm using VMWare...

Well, after messing around with the gtkrc file in question I got rid of that error, but the other error (about the assertion failure and whatnot) is still there.

Interestingly enough, I can run...

I just upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy. I'm using VMWare Workstation. Running vmware-config.pl, I first got an error about vmmon not compiling, so I googled around and found...

I tried to burn the .iso unsuccessfully several times. Finally I determined that the CD .iso is a few sectors bigger than my burner would do. I enabled overburn and then it burned ok. You can google...